Canadians were rightly astonished and angry when it was revealed that City of Vancouver staff consulted with the Chinese regime before drawing up Vancouver's controversial draft protest bylaw.
The input was sought on the new bylaw which would effectively prevent Falun Gong practitioners from erecting signs or a kiosk outside the Chinese consulate on Granville Street.
Clive Ansley, a lawyer representing Falun Gong, described the consulation with the Chinese as "disgraceful" and "indefensible."
Councillor David Cadman questioned why we would talk to a government that imprisons artists and squashes liberties.
Falun Gong spokesperson Sue Zhang accused China of 'genocide' while expressing her outrage, alongside the B.C. Civil Liberties Union and others.
What was largely ignored was that the City of Vancouver also met with Falun Gong practitioners when the original draft was being drawn up.
But no one seems to mind that, because the Falun Gong has become a sacred cow in the minds of many in the mainstream media.
If anything, there would be a louder outcry against the cult group, should the mainstream media start looking at some of their teachings instead of parroting unsubstantiated reports that Falun Gong has millions of followers who are constantly being persecuted.
Here are some Falun Gong facts that get ignored;
Falun Dafa, which was founded in 1992, is an idiosyncratic blend of beliefs and practises as assembled by its founder Li Hongzhi. This includes Taoist and Buddhist references predicated upon a belief in extraterrestrials and practised through a set of prescribed exercises and meditation techniques.
While Li Hongzhi talks about "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," neither he nor his followers actually demonstrate any tolerance concerning critical questions or inquiry. You question them, they call it persecution.
In Mr. Li's world view, mixed-race people are part of a plot, contrived by the evil extraterrestrials. "By mixing the races of humans, the aliens make humans cast off gods," he told a gathering in Switzerland in 1998.
"Mixed races" are supposedly excluded from the "truth" and "have lost their roots, as if nobody in the paradise will take care of them. They belong to nowhere, and no places would accept them . . . the higher levels do not recognize such a human race," he preached.
According to Mr. Li, the offspring of mixed race unions are therefore "intellectually incomplete" or "with an incomplete body." In such cases, only he, Master Li, can help and "take care of it" (i.e. resolve the "incomplete" state). However, that can be done only if "such a person wants to practice cultivation."
Li Hongzhi also encourages hatred of homosexuals. "The disgusting homosexuality shows the dirty abnormal psychology of the gay who has lost his ability of reasoning at the present time," Li Hongzhi wrote in Volume II of Zhuan Falun, or Turning the Law Wheel, which was translated into English in 1996.
In his talk in Switzerland, Li Hongzhi also stated that gay people would be "eliminated" by "the gods." Asked in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1998 whether gays could practice Falun Gong, Mr. Li answered, "You can cultivate, but you must give up the bad conduct."
And for good measure, Master Li preaches that Africa has a two billion-year- old nuclear reactor, that aliens who look human, but have "a nose made of bone," invaded Earth to introduce modern technology and whose teachings are at " a higher level than those of Buddha and Christ ."
He apparently also can fly and has the power to telekinetically implant the falun, or law wheel, into the abdomens of his followers, where it absorbs and releases power as it spins.
Now some of you may wonder why we are bringing this up. That's because we have felt the brunt of the Falun Gong hypocrisy when it comes to freedom of expression, which apparently is central to the group's cause.
In 2009, Frank Cui, the owner of the Burnaby-based Epoch Press, which is affiliated with the Falun Gong movement, and which used to print the Asian Pacific Post, held our publication hostage because they did not like what they read in that edition.
The non-controversial story was about an elaborate dance production showcasing Chinese culture. Cui and his cabal did not like the story's "balanced" approach. They did not want readers to see the Chinese government's views of the Falun Gong. They wanted to control the content and said they had a "legal right" to do it.
When Harbinder Singh Sewak, the publisher of the Asian Pacific Post, said no, Cui refused to release the paper from the print shop. He did so later, after being advised that you can't do such things in Canada.
Cui in an e-mailed press statement said "Unfortunately, news reporters feel that they must 'balance' stories about Falun Gong or events they are involved in by adding the bad words or opinions from the CCP [Chinese Communist Party], but in my feeling, between victim and perpetrator there can never be any neutrality or balance."
This matter of the Asian Pacific Post newspaper being held hostage will be heard by the Supreme Court of B.C. soon, where more intriguing details of how the Falun Gong cult operates, where they get their money from, and how they influence politicians etc., will take centre stage in a court room.
For now, it is suffice to say that consulting with the Chinese government is as outrageous as consulting with the Falun Gong cult, when it comes to Vancouver bylaws.
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http://www.asianpacificpost.com/editorial/editorial/article/shouldvancouverconsultfalungongcultbylaw
